Series: Norton Critical Editions, 0

"Backgrounds" and "Reviews and Reactions" allow readers to gauge
the novel's sensational reception and to consider the heated public
debate over art and morality that the novel engendered. "Criticism"
includes seven new essays on the novel that reflect key changes in
interpretive theory in recent years and reveal the broad range of
interpretive perspectives on Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Michael Patrick Gillespie, Simon Joyce, Donald L. Lawler, Sheldon
W. Liebman, Maureen O'Connor, Elli Ragland-Sullivan, and John Paul
Riquelme provide their varied assessments. A Chronology and
Selected Bibliography are also included.